The Poetry of Pathos Studies in Virgilian Epic

This volume presents a collection of pieces from a celebrated world-classscholar and interpreter of Latin poetry, focusing on the interpretation ofVirgil's Aeneid.. It forms the sequel to two widely influential earlier books onVirgil by the same author and translates and adds to a collection of paperspublished in Italian in 2002. Its central concern is the way in which Virgilreworks earlier poetry (especially that of Homer) at the most detailed level toproduce very broad literary and emotional effects. Gian Biaggio Conte explores acentral issue in Virgilian studies, that of how the Aeneid manages to create anew and effective mode of epic in a period when the genre appears to be debasedor exhausted.

Gian Biagio Conte is Professor of Latin Literature at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa.
S. J. Harrison is Fellow and Tutor in Classics, Corpus Christi College, and Professor of Classical Languages and Literature at the University of Oxford.